Since the Rev. Wright issue arose from our last post on racism, I feel it is important to bring out something of note. Joseph Smith used the phrase in speaking of William Law, a member of the First Presidency of the Church, and one of the most guilty individuals with blood on his hands for the murder of Joseph Smith back in 1844. Joseph said of William Law, "Why is it that hit pigeons always flutter?" In more modern terms, guilty people always seem to make such a big deal when they know just how guilty they are.
Well, if those in the liberal media were proud of Rev. Wright and his words, why shelter Obama away from him? Why mount such a tremendous effort to run away from Rev. Wright if he was doing nothing wrong?
Was Rev. Wright good and clean and an upstanding individual until Obama was running for president? Not hardly! Are we to believe that Rev. Wright turned anti-white like a switch when Obama started to run? Obama listened to his poison for years. That means, of all the preachers in the world, let alone in Chicago, Obama chosen this individual to patron.
In my mind, people who are racist are bad. But those who acknowledge racist behavior, especially liberals who claim to be open-minded, and then cover it up thus giving a back handed endorsement of the behavior is even worse. If a white republican candidate had been a patron at a KKK based church his image and reputation would be irreparably damaged. And in most cases, just like with Senators who sleep with men in bathrooms, the republicans would have asked for his removal. They would not have sought a cover up like the liberal reporters have with Jeremiah Wright.
Liberals should be ashamed of Rev. Wright yet they seek to hide him like the Catholic Church does with Child Molesting priests. Rev. Wright is sad, anyone who defends him is worse than the racist pig they seek to protect... that includes Mr. Obama who does not disown Wright until it hurts his image. Not because he disagrees with him.
Two points I'd like to make here. First, the reason Obama and other Dems ran for the hills when Rev. Wright started making the rounds, was that they simply have no real moral or ethical stands on anything. Democrats, including Obama, are interested almost entirely in getting elected again and getting as much corporate cash and positive media spin to help with that process as possible. If they believed what they say, they would have defended Rev. Wright's position on American history as a reasonable reading of the facts, even if they did not completely agree with his conclusions.
ReplyDeleteSecond, there is a very old strategy that is in use here by the people who really run the country - divide and conquer. As long as they can find ways to get us to argue about race issues, or gay issues, or some other "culture" issue, they can continue to control our government because we are too busy fighting among ourselves to mount a competent opposition. As long as we accuse Democrats of this and Republicans of that instead of looking at the underlying systemic issues, we continue to lose.
It seems to me that on both the left and right, people are waking up to the fact that the system is broken. Whether it's calls for nullification or secession, or for an amendment to legalize democracy, people who pay attention to politics see that something is desperately wrong, but while we argue over the details and the solutions, we are losing what little grip we have left over the people's government.
Because there is a place for corruption to exist does not mean that the system is broken. To paraphrase Luke Skywalker, there is still good in this system, I can feel it.
ReplyDeleteIn fact I have seen it - at least on a local level. Most of the corruption seems to culminate in the federal government because having a large centralized government attracts power hungry individuals. If that is where the power is at, that is where the power hungry go. So to support a strong or large centralized federal government is asking for corruption to sneak in. The system itself can still run if the individuals in it are not Obama or like him.
I am not sure that a revolution is the answer. It seems that the idea of a complete system overhaul, much like the mentality that has created Obama care and other financial disasters cannot be the solution. The system doesn't need to change, it is the people running it.
James, unless the system is changed, the people running it will keep on running it. You can look at it as corruption, or sinful people, but that is unlikely to lead to a solution. How many honest and upright individuals can be elected? How long will they retain their integrity in a system awash in money and corruption?
ReplyDeleteYes there are good people in local government, and even in some state governments, and a few even in the national government, but they are in an uphill battle. Ultimately power is for sale and the higher the level of government the higher the price offered to obtain/corrupt that power. It is those who seek to corrupt who must be stopped, and that will take power. Making the people's power weaker will only make it easier to corrupt government at all levels.